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Jayanta Bhatta

Overview

Jayanta Bhatta (c. 820 CE – c. 900 CE) was a poet, teacher, logician, and an advisor to King Sankaravarman of Kashmir. He was a philosopher of the Nyaya school of Hindu philosophy. He authored three works on Nyāya philosophy: one of which is not known, an allegorical drama, and a commentary on Pāṇinian grammar, He refutes the arguments given by Buddhist philosophers like Dharmakirti and Dignāga against the Vedas and establishes the authority of the Vedas.

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Philosophers who discussed Jayanta Bhatta

• Nagarjuna

Related ideas

• Dignāga
• Hinduism
• Vedas
• Nyāya Sūtras
• Dharmakirti
• Hindu philosophy
• Mīmāṃsā
• Buddhism
• Shastra
• Oxford University Press
• Bengal
• Pāṇini
• Nyaya
• Charvaka
• Bharadvaja
• Anviksiki

Place in the tradition

Part of Nyaya.

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